A dead baby was not only a tragedy for black families of rural Georgia in the 1950s but a mark against the midwife in attendance. Public officials were concerned about the health of this population and began requiring strict regulation to receive licenses for practice. Although black midwives were highly skilled in their practice, no formal training existed to explain the theory behind sanitation.

With the interactions with the student body within the college life and the importance it brings to success with programs and events, and organizations. With the separation of the dormitories and the strict expectations it makes the interaction with the student life much harder to succeed and gain other...

Los Angeles in 1992 was a vast, amorphous city, sliced-up into innumerable racial and ethnic enclaves, which a mass of interconnecting highways did little to integrate. The bloody race riots in the Spring of 1992 killed fifty-three people, injured thousands more, led to rape and widespread looting, and the destruction of buildings by vandalism and burning, altogether causing...

Alma College has a history of excellence, both in the MIAA and against colleges around the nation. The pinnacle of Alma’s athletic excellence, however, is the National Championship that the women’s basketball team of 1992 brought back to Scotland U.S.A.

Led by head coach Charlie Goffnett and assistant coach Mark Guyette,...

It would seem that James Madison had risen from the grave. Or at least one of his 12 original Constitutional amendments had been resuscitated. With near unanimity (Senate: 99-0; House: 414-3) Congress showed its support for the Twenty-Seventh Amendment on May 20,1992. The Amendment prohibits adjustments to Congressional salaries from taking effect before an election intercedes. Yet the vote was...

In the mid 1900’s roughly one-third of Alma College’s student body was involved in the performing arts either through music, dance, or theatre, and there was not enough space to house all of the college’s performing arts groups. The college was in desperate need of a performance center. Designs and drawings of such a center were first seen in a 1962 yearbook. However, the construction did...

The difference between the two photographs is stark. The first, from 1981, shows a lively neighborhood off of French Road next to the Detroit City Airport packed with houses. By the time the second photo was taken, in 1997, however, the area had been decimated. Many of the houses are gone, and the remaining ones are surrounded by empty lots left behind from the houses that were demolished. ...

The experience of US troops returning from action in Operation Desert Storm, commonly referred to as the First Gulf War was markedly different from that of troops returning after the Vietnam War. In 1991 they were invited to take part in what the Los Angeles Times termed “the biggest victory celebration since the end of WWII,” in Washington D.C. Despite opposition from some, the “overall...

Timothy Murphy, author of AIDS, Morality, and Culture, recalled that in, “A 1988 report…some 8 to 60 percent of persons surveyed considered AIDS to be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.” Many of President Ronald Reagan’s closest advisors also felt the individuals who had contracted AIDS were deserving of the plague that was now cleansing the earth of the unfaithful. ...

During the early 1970s, theatre was dominated by male actors, male directors, male playwrights, and male producers. In an article titled The ‘Woman’ Playwright Issue Gayle Austin, 80s playwright and journalist, expressed that many of the female characters portrayed in the shows of this time were flat or two-dimensional, leaving the female audience in this male dominated world wanting more than...